#rows

I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion. ↗

— Ricardo Montalban

#biceps #enormous #found #grows #had

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious. ↗

— Alan Moore

#conscious #consciousness #first #got #grows

Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame. ↗

— Thurston Moore

#away #cases #grows #influential #lame

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#committee #committees #dies #flowers #grows

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#become #begin #boy #child #childhood

It's good for America when the rest of the world grows, because you can sell more to the rest of the world. ↗

— Jamie Dimon

#because #good #grows #more #rest

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. ↗

— Max Planck

#convincing #die #does #eventually #familiar

I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs. ↗

— Franka Potente

#annoyed #arrows #because #bedrooms #brother

One today is worth two tomorrows. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#tomorrows #two #worth

Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#course #god #grace #grows #heart